30 years, may not be from russias strength, but weakness. That, i think, should inform serious policy thinking about russia and our approach to it. We know that the reset of relations, that the Obama Administration attempted to ork state with moscow in the last four years is, well, not as healthy as it could be, i would say today; right . The reset has been a failure. We know now that the white house is at least beginning to think about what comes next. What this is intended to do is to give them a little bit of food for thought about where russia is headed because knowing where russias heading is determinative to figuring out what our policy towards it should be, so, thank you, guys, ill stop there. [applause] well take questions, be kind to wait for the microphone to be passed to you, and state your name and affiliation if you care to as a curtesy to the guest, and im going to take the prerogative of reading one of the questions we received online, and ill change it a little bit. How
That russias population is fleeing in a real sense. The practices of the state and conditions on economic and social terms are forcing them to eye the exits, and as a result, the pace of exodus from russia of imgrigs from russia, right now, rivals out migration seen a snch ri ago. More than 2 million russians are estimated to have left since putin took power in the last days of 1999. One in five russians today desires to live abackward, and 40 of russians between ages of 18 and 35 on template departure, all right . This is catastrophic because it gives you a window into the thinking of the russian population at large. They are devastating all the more so because they are symptoms of a population thats lost hope in its future and one that no longer trusts that its government is a steward of its needs. Now, this does not mean theres not hopeful signs. There have been as of late. You know that over the last eight months, russia a had an uptick in fertility. The demographics for the last e
Do they believe the United States would help them if the Russian Military got out of control or this yiewn phobia got out of control and would impact troops . Two excellent questions. Two probably rather uninformative answers. We got a choice. Its a tricky one. I dont know what the answer is. Do we continue to support the prodemocracy people who, to put it mildly, have not been successful so far, but or, do we try to engage with the people who have murdered some of them and locked many of the other ones up in order to save independence . In five years time, there may not be a bell ruse. The people are trying discreet. It was interesting, no softy when it comes to russia, and no softer with democracy. Hes received the Russian Ambassador at the Foreign Ministry many a very formal way to say poe land land is ready to talk. Now, those talks become substantial, but something has to happen. Were not demanding immediate dispatch on the coast or even a full independence inquiry, but perhaps le
What would be acceptable in congress in a short period of time with the structure that we have. So the agility that tom talked about is critical. You need organization on the executive branch side, but you also need a fully armed partner on the congressional side, and i dont think we have that. Governor thompson . As to the rapidly evolving technology, we all understand that. And what is useful today may not be useful tomorrow and things we cant even imagine now may be coming along. Im sure they will. But what were looking at is a framework within which government in the private sector can accommodate each others interests in preventing cyber attacks. Does the military of the United States or nsa possess knowledge, experience that can be useful to the private sector, to our banks, to our utilities, all of whom can expect some kind of cyber attack because its happened before. Well, the answer to that is yes. Do we have a framework in the United States where the military, the nsa, other
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